Example sentences of "when you [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JUST when you thought the English palate was becoming more sophisticated than fish and chips ( a great , great meal , mark you ) the office restaurant has a Chinese Day . |
| 2 | Did you understand that when you made the partial attempt ? ’ |
| 3 | If , when you attended the major retrospective of your works which recently took place at the Tate Gallery , someone had asked you : Marcel Duchamp , what have you done with your life ? |
| 4 | Because I think in the so called Good Old Days , you always did stand up when you heard the National Anthem played . |
| 5 | You said you were gon na change it all round when you got the new sofa . |
| 6 | I always remember your joke at the North and South Club when you told the Jamaican guy those things that he got mad at you that you did n't have a black belt but you had a yellow streak at Origami ! |
| 7 | When you were born as a scarcely distinguishable blob in the smoked ranks of the industrial army of the poor , when privilege was not only out of sight but in the hands of a foreign country , when you saw the daily cost of a necessary daily grind , then to have a ‘ gift ’ was perhaps the only sure way to see an escape . |
| 8 | They punished you when you did the wrong thing , and they rewarded you when , when , when they did , when you did the right thing . |
| 9 | They punished you when you did the wrong thing , and they rewarded you when , when , when they did , when you did the right thing . |
| 10 | He did n't look effeminate , even when you considered the plain gold ring that pierced his left earlobe . |
| 11 | I got the shock of my life when you opened the front door ; could n't you tell ? ’ |
| 12 | On any model , when knitting the neckline , start with the second side of the neck with the carriage on the same side as it was when you started the first side of the neck . |
| 13 | You , when you rang the other night you , you did sound like Jackie , I 'm sure you were Jackie on the phone , and with her not living here very long |